Bachelorette

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Bachelorette by Bachelorette

MIST045 BACHELORETTE
by BACHELORETTE

Recorded around the world and mixed with Nicholas Vernhes at Rare Book Room (Animal Collective, Baby Dee, Dirty Projectors, et cetera) in Brooklyn, the tracks of Bachelorette are built on buzzing synth grooves, folky guitar strums, and the occasional snap of drums and percussion ‒ aided and abetted by a whimsical, searching sense of instrumental color. We are guided through the darkness of infinite space by Bachelorette’s luminescent lead vocal. Sing along!

“There’s still no one around that does retro-futuristic electro-pop quite as well as Bachelorette” – ROSE QUARTZ

$20.00 + FREE POSTAGE WORLDWIDE

My Electric Family by Bachelorette

MIST031 MY ELECTRIC FAMILY by BACHELORETTE

Bachelorette’s Annabel Alpers has a family of synthesizers, keyboards and computers that beam to us all the way from New Zealand. Bachelorette’s acclaimed opus MY ELECTRIC FAMILY is a hand-woven sci-folk lullaby that delves into your subconscious and hits you right at your electric core.

“A wonderful surprise… Though Bachelorette has a clear lineage with Dunedin bands such as Look Blue Go Purple and The Clean, her modern style is thoroughly her creation.” – THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN **** four stars

$15.00 + FREE POSTAGE WORLDWIDE

Isolation Loops by Bachelorette

MIST011 ISOLATION LOOPS
by BACHELORETTE

Bachelorette – New Zealand’s Annabel Alpers – seems like the private type. Her pop songs are wrapped up snug in a quilt of digital and analogue patches. They’re obviously all hers, hand woven through and through. On her debut, lyrically, Alpers tends towards the everyday and the simple to charming effects. You get the impression that even a cup of tea for her has the inbuilt soundtrack of Isolation Loops’ space odysseys and whimsical musings. It’s a well-paced and fascinated dawdle through quaint and quiet sounds, filled with bright Casio keyboards gazing out at a carpet of glow-in-the-dark stars.

It’s playful for the most part, but the kitschy keyboard veneer gives way to a poignant sense of storytelling. The sparse ‘And The Earth Knew Absence’ falls after the drum machine-driven ‘Intergalactic Solitude’, beginning with the hushed, ‘I lost my friend today/I can feel his presence all around’. For all the times where Alpers’ voice is buoyant atop her vast palette of sound, there are others where it’s isolated, left floating alone, unguided. This is an insular record, curious; just her voice and ideas on their own, wealthy with inspiration and easy to be swept up by. You glance out the window, the world goes by – it seems faster than usual.